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qmk/qmk_firmware
1.7%
of 231 commits were committed by an AI agent — a floor, not an estimate
1.7% agent · top contributor 25%4 contributors
team

A small group is using agents. Adoption has spread beyond one person but is not project-wide.

4
agent commits
227
human commits
4
agent contributors
25%
largest contributor

Assisted or autonomous

4assisted
0autonomous

Assisted — a developer’s identity authored the commit and the agent added itself as co-author. The agent ran git commit during a working session, with a person there. Autonomous — a bot identity is the author, no human in the loop. Across the whole index, 93.7% of agent commits are assisted.

Agent share by month

Feb26
Mar26
Apr26
May26
Jun26
Jul26
Aug26
Sep26

Peak month: 9.1%. Bars are scaled to that peak, not to 100%.

Which agents

Claude CodeAnthropic31.3%
GitHub CopilotGitHub10.4%

Verify it yourself

Sample commits that matched. Every one links to GitHub — check the trailers.

  • 14774c84Add license headers to splitkb/aurora glcdfont.c files (#26382)Claude Code
  • 437025dcAdd HEER S1 macropad (#26373)Claude Code
  • 1ef87578Fix audio.pins in keyboard.json not being converted to C defines (#26107)Claude Code
  • 4b2c8b31Update encoder documents for json config (#26188)GitHub Copilot

What was excluded

Commits in window353
Merge commits removed111
CI / dependency bots removed11
Considered231

Bots are excluded from the denominator entirely. Counting dependabot as “AI-written code” is the fastest way to produce a meaningless number.

How this was measured

Measured over February–August 2026, cloned directly. Detection is deterministic string matching against signatures agents write about themselves — no heuristics, no style analysis. Merge commits and CI bots are excluded from the denominator. The figure is a floor: squash merges strip trailers, so real usage is higher. Contributor counts are aggregate — no individual is named.

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